Is your area at risk from rising sea levels?
Nearly 200,000 coastal homes and businesses
in England could be Underwater by the
2050s, study warns
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Sam Tonkin
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/14/2022 11:58:40 PM
Nearly 200,000 homes and businesses in England are at risk of being lost to rising sea levels by the 2050s, a new study has warned.
Researchers said the country could face around 14 inches (35cm) of sea level rise compared to historic levels within 30 years and is nearly certain to see close to 3ft (1m) of advancement by the end of the century.
It comes a week after the official in charge of Britain's flood protection said some of Britain's seaside towns and villages may have to be abandoned because of rising seas and coastal erosion.
The new study also cautioned that it may not be possible to protect some communities,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
hisself 6/15/2022 12:01:47 AM (No. 1186095)
BS!
I have been hearing this crap for over 50 years. It still has not happened.
This is a scam!
43 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
formerNYer 6/15/2022 12:02:37 AM (No. 1186096)
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!!
23 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
wweste 6/15/2022 12:08:56 AM (No. 1186100)
Aaaaaa, I live at 6060+ feet above sea level. I think I am safe.
11 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Catherine 6/15/2022 12:12:03 AM (No. 1186102)
I'm in Oklahoma. Pretty sure we won't drown. But I could make a wild accusation that will happen in 30 years and be just as accurate as these people.
19 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
snakeoil 6/15/2022 12:13:10 AM (No. 1186103)
Because I live in land I wouldn't mind. Because it would cause the value of my property to skyrocket. But it's not going to happen.
4 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/15/2022 12:30:23 AM (No. 1186108)
Another attack of psychological warfare designed to create fear and panic in people and get them to surrender to climate change Electric vehicles and $25/gal gas. All to prevent rising dead levels because icebergs are melting. Put ice cubes in a glass and fill it with water. The water in the glass is the ocean and the ice cubes are ice bergs. What happens when the ice cubes melt? Does the glass overflow? Geeee i wonder why.
24 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
weirdone 6/15/2022 12:34:08 AM (No. 1186110)
Why should I care, the world will end in less than 10 years according to these morons?
19 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 6/15/2022 1:15:48 AM (No. 1186126)
The climate is always changing and always has been since eons before humans raised farting cows.. It's always either getting warmer or colder, and, of the two, getting warmer is a hundred times better. Several times more people die every year from cold than from heat. If the Earth warms and CO2 increases, the planet becomes a huge, lush garden.
16 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Calico Al 6/15/2022 1:19:39 AM (No. 1186129)
Obama better sell his mansion while the selling is good. PS don't mention rising sea levels.
21 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
coldoc 6/15/2022 1:27:58 AM (No. 1186131)
Nonsense.
10 people like this.
Battery Park was named after an artillery battery placed on the southern tip of Manhattan in the 17th century. It still exists on the same spot.If these sea level changes are so drastic it would have disappeared many years ago.
14 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 6/15/2022 3:33:18 AM (No. 1186145)
When Al Gore sells his beachfront house I’ll worry.
13 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/15/2022 4:59:00 AM (No. 1186154)
I've heard this BS story before. Never happened when they said it would.
9 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
mifla 6/15/2022 5:09:51 AM (No. 1186158)
Deja Vu. Gore said this decades ago and nothing happened.
9 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
andyboy 6/15/2022 5:27:59 AM (No. 1186165)
To any panicked climate change liberal -- I am willing to purchase your soon-to-be-underwater beachfront property at 10 cents on the dollar. Please reply to this post if you are interested in selling.
17 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
mjwall69 6/15/2022 6:07:54 AM (No. 1186176)
I really believe articles like this are a concerted effort by the elites and their lapdogs in the media to drive down the value of those shore front properties so they can snatch them up. Then when the sea level doesn't inundate the places they've already got a new hotel or beach front villa. A pox on all of them.
6 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
NancyD 6/15/2022 6:08:45 AM (No. 1186177)
Lake Michigan was at a record high a year ago, NOW is down 26 inches from a year ago. Yes we had erosion however we were in no way in danger of being washed away. When "researchers" say, "could, might, maybe" to me its their own wishful thinking and a way to control us.
12 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/15/2022 6:15:56 AM (No. 1186183)
And purple fairies could have eaten all of the climate researchers by then, too.
6 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 6/15/2022 6:18:05 AM (No. 1186186)
According to John Kerry and Al Gore, they both have been saying the waters are rising forever. We should have been under water 15 years ago. These are crazy predictions that are not happening.
7 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
PChristopher 6/15/2022 6:33:42 AM (No. 1186193)
If all of these coastal areas are supposed to be inundated, why are all of the climate intelligentsia building waterfront mansions on islands?
7 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 6/15/2022 7:03:20 AM (No. 1186205)
Re #12
Obama owns two houses on the water, one in Martha's Vineyard and one in Hawaii. Funny how he lectures about the existential threat of climate change and then lives only steps from the water. I was never fooled by his Manchurian Candidate M.O., but my God so many others were, and still continue to be. Google his houses and think to yourself, how in the hell could a junior senator with so little experience end up living like this so fast?????
10 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Wetenschapper 6/15/2022 7:17:46 AM (No. 1186212)
More nonsense from the climate cabal. The sea levels have risen about a foot in the last hundred years, at a more or less steady rate, as they've been doing since the end of the last ice age. At least some of the reported "sea level rise" is the result of data manipulation and is not present in the raw satellite data. See https://www.scribd.com/doc/54200036/Sea-Level-is-Not-Rising-by-Professor-Nils-Axel-Morner. Only the alarmist 'climate modeling', which has little in common with reality, shows any sort of significant rise in sea levels.
4 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Wetenschapper 6/15/2022 7:23:36 AM (No. 1186217)
Correction- sea level rise since 1850 has been closer to four inches, not a foot. In glancing at the data, I mistook centimeters for inches.
4 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/15/2022 7:27:32 AM (No. 1186220)
Over the past 50 years I have heard the same stories of gloom a doom for cuties like Miami, Boston, and NYC. They were all supposed to be coral reefs by now. Sometimes erosion is just erosion. Some land get washed away because that is what nature does. Steps can be taken to stop it, or not. Stop the fear mongering to prove your climate change agenda.
5 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
sw penn 6/15/2022 7:39:52 AM (No. 1186230)
Went thru this article twice.
"New Study", "New Study", "New Study",
Apparently with no reference to who did the "New Study".
Or, and much more importantly, who paid for the "New Study".
Nothing New Studyists say can be taken at face value.
An Old White Guy once said, "Trust, but Verify!"
8 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
NamVet70 6/15/2022 7:50:20 AM (No. 1186239)
Whenever they warn that the ice caps are melting and will cause the seas to rise, I am amazed at the lack of understanding in this ridiculous claim. The ice they are talking about is floating on the sea. It displaces its own weight in water. If it melts there is no change in water level. Those ice caps routinely shrink and then refreeze. You hear warnings when it is melting, and you might hear crickets when it is growing back.
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
philsner 6/15/2022 7:51:42 AM (No. 1186241)
Then why is Obama putting in a $75000 propane tank at his mansion on Martha's Vineyard?
3 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Lazyman 6/15/2022 7:53:39 AM (No. 1186246)
Water used to seek the lowest level but now it rises in one spot and stays normal to the shore in others. Gravity will be suspended next.
3 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 6/15/2022 7:54:39 AM (No. 1186248)
The sky is falling, the ice is melting, the oceans are rising, there is another pandemic coming, the hurricanes and tornado's are getting stronger. We are doomed.
& in other news Biden has lowered, not only our gas prices and all cost of products over the board. Our schools have the highest standards and results than any other country. The border is secure and our cities are safer now than every before with the crime rate lower than any time in history.
(Brought to you by the Kool Aid industry. Get your kool aid now)
4 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/15/2022 7:59:23 AM (No. 1186254)
I can't deal with this, I'm still busy chipping my way out of the ice after the 70's.
4 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
JrSample 6/15/2022 7:59:57 AM (No. 1186255)
Wealthy liberals are still buying lavish coastal properties on Martha's Vinyard and the Hamptons.
3 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/15/2022 8:03:07 AM (No. 1186261)
Hogwash. If it happens, it has happened before. And will happen again and again. Its called Nature!
2 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/15/2022 8:14:02 AM (No. 1186271)
Pure BS. New York was predicted to be underwater 20 years ago by the ALGORE. It's still there, unfortunately. And Liberals are constantly buying ocean front property.
3 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
Jebediah 6/15/2022 8:21:53 AM (No. 1186280)
Right!!!!!!
1 person likes this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
red1066 6/15/2022 9:16:09 AM (No. 1186337)
With the polar ice caps increasing in size, just where is all of this additional water coming from to raise sea levels?
1 person likes this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/15/2022 9:25:43 AM (No. 1186347)
So where is all the extra water coming from, Mars? New York City people with second homes at the beach can deal with it if they can deal with what NYC has become.
1 person likes this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/15/2022 9:32:32 AM (No. 1186356)
I live in Houston, My local airport has a runway height of 110 feet above sea level. It's 60 miles inland.
Am I worried ? Nope.
1 person likes this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
sterling431 6/15/2022 9:58:42 AM (No. 1186391)
In 1974 they predicted the next ice age was imminent. These liar's records speak for themselves. Typical left wing nut jobs thinking they are experts on everything. If they were judged by their past performance they would go hide under a rock.
1 person likes this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
NeverVoteDem 6/15/2022 10:04:33 AM (No. 1186399)
Map of USA please. If Obama sells his 2 waterfront homes I will sell my 1.
1 person likes this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
Rathaven 6/15/2022 10:21:34 AM (No. 1186417)
It's Déjà Poo, that feeling that you've heard this Crap before.
2 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
walcb 6/15/2022 11:17:39 AM (No. 1186486)
Relax, this new study only applies to ocean levels around England. We are safe here in the US. /s
2 people like this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
DVC 6/15/2022 12:01:36 PM (No. 1186561)
More baloney. If you aren't essentially under water at spring neap tide now, you will be fine for a few more decades.
Daily tidal variation gives decades of warning when you "have built too close to the edge" as I call it. Then periodic oceanic storms give the next "hint". Nothing to do with "climate change" at all. It's weather.
A family member purchased a home in the 70s on the south end of the Virginia Beach area. His home then was on one street parallel to the beach, and there were two rows of homes across the street, then another street parallel to the beach, and then the beachfront homes....RIGHT on the water, all homes newly built in the 70s.
After about four or five good storms, (25 -30 years) some hurricanes, some nor'easters, the first row of beach homes are gone, the closest road is gone, and about half of the second row of homes are gone. My family member sold his home long ago. Storms regularly wash through there, and you might get away with building "too close to the edge" for 10, or even 30 years or more, because the weather is largely benign. BUT there ARE coastal storms, and houses that can survive long stretches of good weather, cannot survive these storms. The storms WILL come, but not every decade, but they WILL come.
Building too close to the edge is stupid. But, here in the USA, since no insurance company is stupid enough to ensure these guaranteed losses, the US government will "insure" them. This just means that the government (our idiot Congresscritters) agrees to steal money from folks in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado and all the other states to pay rich folks for their stupidly sited homes on the beaches.
We really are stupid, as a country, paying for the homes of rich folks who build them where they should never have been built, "too close to the edge", where it is not a matter of "if", just "when" the home will be destroyed by a storm.
I wonder if the Brits are as stupid?
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And how many of these "researchers" will be alive in the 2050s?
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